The New Blacklists.

The article discusses the experience of the author of teaching Middle Eastern history at a large research university in the South. Like any new faculty member, the author's anxieties revolved primarily around not breaking the PowerPoint projector, not being mistaken yet again for a graduate student instead of a professor, and not spilling spinach dip on the dean at one of the innumerable faculty mixers held at the beginning of the academic year. Since neither of the letters specified exactly what the author had done to place the author in the ranks of someone who, as one of the letters put it, shoveled Jews into the ovens at Dachau, it took me a couple of days of inquiries and some Google searching to figure out what was going on.